To me crowley is not arrogant at all. He loves what he helped create. He loves humanity. He admires humanity for our qualities but mostly for our flaws. He is the one that wanted to save the world.
Yes he doesn't seem to "care" about Azi's presence but if you put yourself in his shoes at the moment where he created everything, I think you can understand. When I am absorbed in something I created and I am proud of, nothing else matters and I am excited to talk about it to every person I can find to talk about it. Doesn't matter who they are.
And that's what's beautiful about art. If everyone admires your art, that's cool. But if you are proud of yourself for creating something, and people like it, that's better.
I don't know if it makes sense, sorry for my bad english, that's not my first language.
Maybe you could watch the show again? Not only does Crowley ignore Aziraphale because he is too busy to admire his stars to even look at him, but he is also arrogant towards humanity and the Earth. Maybe it was precisely this arrogance that caused his Fall, what do you think?
Fandom acting like Aziraphale is the Bad Guy for asking Crowley to become an angel again is something else. I'm not arguing that offering to turn him into an angel again was the right thing to do, but CONTEXT MATTERS!!
Things Crowley has canonically said about his fall:
"I never asked to be a demon. I was just minding my own business one day and then… Oh, lookie here, it’s Lucifer and the guys. Oh, hey, the food hadn’t been that good lately. I didn’t have anything on for the rest of that afternoon. Next thing, I’m doing a million-light-year freestyle dive into a pool of boiling sulphur." (Aziraphale appeared to Crowley right after he said this so it's not outside of the realm of possibility that he found Crowley by following his voice in the first place.)
"I didn't mean to fall. I just hung around the wrong people."
"I didn't really fall. I just, you know, sauntered vaguely downwards." (Crowley says this to Aziraphale in the same scene he asks for holy water.)
Crowley was turned into a demon against his will.
Crowley hates being a demon too. It makes sense that Aziraphale would mistakenly believe that Crowley might accept the idea of becoming an angel again if what we were witnessing was Aziraphale being honest with Crowley in the final fifteen.
Again, I'm not saying he was right to ask that of Crowley, but let's not just decide that Aziraphale is a Bad Person for asking when he's witnessed ways in which Crowley has suffered as a demon.
There is indeed a lesson to be learned here, but why bring a little more context into the situation when it's just easier to villainize Aziraphale, am I right?
Yes, he was wrong to ask Crowley to become an angel again because it's not what Crowley wants. No, he's not a monster for offering. This is seriously all because of their stunning inability to communicate what it is they actually want.
Aziraphale has to break free from whatever hold Heaven still has on him, but he doesn't deserve to be treated like the Bad Guy.
It is entirely possible to criticize Aziraphale's actions without painting him as a monstrous abusive prick.
Can't believe I'm doing this again but I know a lot of your timezones and I know MANY OF YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AN AWAKE PERSON RIGHT NOW.
AND A LOT OF YOU, IT MAY BE DAYTIME BUT YOU'RE SLEEP DEPRIVED. MMHM. YOU AS WELL.
Yes, you, reading the fanfic, we've all been there, close the tab. It's something to wake up to and read in the morning or after your nap.
You watching the David Tennant video on youtube, hush now, close it. I can assure you that he will still be there when you wake up, more gender than ever. So will Michael Sheen.
You authors writing the fic, we love you for your effort but we need you to be healthy and alive okay? Same for you artists, yes, it looks beautiful, put it aside. You'll see it better after sleep. All you editors, too.
All of you. The science students, the musicians, the retail workers, the dreamers, the weirdos, the nurses, the doctors, the lovers, the oozing slugs through life folks, the zombies, the adults, the retired, the teenagers, all of you. Get some sleep.
If you cannot now, take a hug, or a smile if that's more comfortable. When you can, go to sleep.
When you can, shut your eyes, and I promise we will be waiting on the other side.
Here's all my love for you *hands it over carefully* there, it'll keep you safe while you dream.
This was it. This was the entire plot of Good Omens.
Trying to think of a realistic ending, I am really believing in Crowley taking the position of a Prince because it would place him in high hierarchy opposite to Aziraphale. With both of them in power, equal, on opposite sides, they can work together to bring Angels and Demons back together.
Demons never deserved to fall for not wanting to follow one voice and not being able to ask questions. For having opinions.
At the beginning of Season 2 there is a scene where Shax talks to Crowley about her trying to come up with something bad but humans always come up with something worse themselves. Crowley confirms it’s always been like this.
Aziraphale proved that he’s as capable of doing demonic deeds as Crowley is capable of doing angelic deeds.
They’re all about shades of grey.
There is no need for the bad and good guys. There is no need for humans to have angels or demons whisper in their ears. There never was. Crowley gave humans free will and they have been using it ever since.
There is no need for Heaven and Hell. No need for the divide.
So I think perhaps that’s what Crowley and Aziraphale will do. They will unionise.
Give free will to Angels and Demons too.
Let them work together.
I have read all the fanfictions in which Crowley Saved Kids Before the Flood in Mesopotamia 3004 BC and i think about it too much 😵
I have already written my own fanfic in my head and drew an illustration for it :“)
It's the third time I read a fanfic where Crowley destroys his plants out of rage, and that actually had me thinking
Yes, he is hard on them. He yells, and the threatens and, well, "makes them go away"
But most of us must know by now that, every time he takes a plant away, he keeps it on the side until he gives it to his neighbor. It's canon, I'm not making that up. He never truly hurts the plants. Puts the fear of Crowley into them? Yes. Terrifies them? Absolutely. But physically hurt? I don't see it. He is way too soft for that, even in a fit of rage
The plants are, unconsciously, a mirror of himself. When he terrorizes the plants, he is reliving his trauma of not being good enough for Heaven and being tossed out like he was broken and useless over and over again
He treats the plants like Heaven and God treated him, and yet, he never truly destroys them or throws them in the trash for being disobedient or imperfect. That's a step too far. Instead, he finds them a new home. Some place better. Some place he wishes he also had found. And maybe he already did: Earth, with Aziraphale
Alas, all this to say: destroying the plants, even with his rage goggles on, it's not very him
Destroying furniture? Throwing shit at the walls? Screaming? Sure, I can see that.
So far, we've mostly seen a very controlled type of rage from Crowley, mainly aimed at Gabriel in season 2. The only scene of actually explosive active rage we see is the one where he, well... explodes in the middle of Soho
And even that was very controlled, if you think about it. He just lets it all out at once, and then the rage is gone, only the low-key depression (over fighting with bae) remaining
So, yeah, realistically, I can kinda see him breaking stuff if he is at the very end of his rope and with no other way to decompress but never ever hurting his plants. Au contraire, I believe he would turn to the plants when he comes out of the high of being furious in search of some quiet comfort
Until Our Stars No Longer Shine
Took me a while to finish this. The lighting gave me the most trouble. But this is one of the other mini comics I have waiting to be worked on. It goes along with this art I did a while back.
It's based on an rp I did in the GOCC with @kotias. The final writing is still in progress, but it will be a fan fiction and a webcomic.